Good morning! Let’s play Connections, a clever NYT word game that challenges you to group your answers into different categories. This may be hard, so read on if you need some guidance.
What should you do once you’re done? Of course, play more word games. I also have daily Wordle tips and answers, Strands tips and answers, and Quordle tips and answers articles if you need lend a hand with that too.
SPOILER WARNING: Today’s NYT Connections story is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
NYT Connections Today (Game #512) – Today’s Words
Today’s words from NYT Connections are…
- SHELL
- VANITY
- OUTFIT
- ID
- WARDROBE
- JARGON
- CONSOLE
- EGO
- WAREHOUSE
- CHARACTER
- EXISTENCE
- CHEST
- I
- SUPPLY
- WAS
- DELIVER
NYT Connections Today (Game #512) – Hint #1 – Group Hints
What are some tips for today’s NYT Connections groups?
- Yellow: Stock up on
- Green: It’s all about ME!
- Blue: You can put various things in them
- Purple: Don’t write like that
Need more tips?
We’re now in spoiler territory, but read on if you want to know the four thematic answers to today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
Today NYT Connections (Game #512) – Hint #2 – Group Answers
What are the responses to today’s NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: EQUIP
- GREEN: INDIVIDUALITY
- BLUE: FURNITURE
- PURPLE: APOSTROPHE WORDS REMOVED
Sure, the answers are below, so DON’T SCROLL FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #512) – answers
The answers for today’s Connections game, game #512, are…
- YELLOW: EQUIP EQUIPMENT, EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES, STORAGE
- GREEN: INDIVIDUALITY BEING, CHARACTER, EGO, ME
- BLUE: FURNITURE Chest, console, dressing table, wardrobe
- PURPLE: APOSTROPHE WORDS REMOVED CANT, ID, SHELL, WERE
- My rating: Moderate
- My result: 1 hint
A good strategy for Connections is (of course) to focus on any words that have narrow possible links to others. What I mean by this is that some have multiple possible connections; a word like STOCK may appear before MARKET or after BEEF; they can be combined with other words meaning LINE or BLOOD, or with words meaning TRUST. Or, as here, it may stand for EQUIPMENT and be grouped with SUPPLIES, EQUIPMENT and EQUIPMENT.
CANT, on the other hand, is a relatively sporadic word that really only has a few very narrow associations with anything. Staring at it for a moment, it occurred to me that one of them was the lack of an apostrophe. When I thought about it, I noticed SHELL, WERE and ID (I’D) and resolved the purple group. The others joined quite quickly once the hardest group was found.
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Yesterday’s NYT Connections Answers (Sunday, November 3, Game 511)
- YELLOW: PATIENT MOVING, SWEET, TENDER, TOUCHING
- GREEN: SUSPICIOUS FEELING, INDUSTRY, IMPRESSION, SENSE
- BLUE: LEGAL SESSION INTERVIEW, INVESTIGATION, PROCEDURE, TRIAL
- PURPLE: EASY ___ CHAIR, LISTENING, MONEY, STREET
What are NYT calls?
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games created by the New York Times. The task is to find groups of four items that have something in common, and each group has a different level of difficulty: green is uncomplicated, yellow is slightly more hard, blue is often quite hard, and purple is usually very hard.
The advantage is that you technically don’t have to solve the last one because you will be able to answer it by process of elimination. What’s more, you can make as many as four mistakes, which gives you some slack.
However, it’s a little more complicated than something like Wordle, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to throw you off balance with tricks. For example, watch out for homophones and other wordplay that can concealed answers.
You can play it for free via NYT Gaming Site on your desktop computer or mobile phone.
